Live now on Ustream : NASA the search for extraterrestrial life

3 or 4 NASA scientists giving a talk about the new JWST- James Webb Space Telescope, which is much more powerful than The Hubble telescope.
They go into detail about what type of planets they will look at
I dont know much more about it i just clicked on it and then linked it here...

3 or 4 NASA scientists giving a talk about the new JWST- James Webb Space Telescope, which is much more powerful than The Hubble telescope.
They go into detail about what type of planets they will look at
I dont know much more about it i just clicked on it and then linked it here...

Thank you for posting this. They are basically taking the drake equation and updating it with their data from hubble and kepler and what the next
batch of telescopes will tell us. It's in HD, I don't know why you wouldn't want to watch it. It switches from a talk to nice graphs, and video/photos
of the telescope.

My internet suuuuuucks so bad right now, it's "stuttering" & freezing constantly even on the lower setting. This sucks majorly, because I think
this is a repeat airing of the broadcast, which was done earlier today, and I missed that one.

Bite me, Verizon. You make streaming quality sucktacular even when you're not throttling.

Mine is freezing too. They were asked which stars will you target and they answered Orion because they know stars are being born there, and then he
dodged answering what other star systems, he said we have very strong targets. John Grunsfeld, Dave Gallagher, John Mather, and few others are
talking. This telescope will be able to look for life signatures that our current telescopes can't find, bio-signatures, tech-signatures, what
percentage of probability of life on a planet, 80%, 99%, etc...They're taking lots of questions...Talking about life in our solar system too...sounds
like they are specifically looking for earth like planets because the moons and planets in our solar system we are studying, the telescope won't pick
up those signatures on exomoon and exoplanets. It sounds like the telescope is looking for abundant life and civilizations.

This wasn't supposed to be an "announcement of a finding" press conference. This conference had been scheduled several days ago, and is simply
meant to be a discussion about NASA's search for life elsewhere, and a discussion about one of their new tools they will have at their disposal in a
few years that will aide them in the search for ET life -- The James Webb Telescope.

Personally, I think the prospects for finding life elsewhere are getting very exciting with the coming launches of the James Webb Space telescope, the
Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite (TESS), and other potential tools that may be coming in the next decade.

This press conference was all about that. Very interesting and meaningful stuff.

Experts from NASA and its partner institutions addressed this question today, July 14, at a public talk held at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
They outlined NASA's roadmap to the search for life in the universe, an ongoing journey that involves a number of current and future telescopes...

...The NASA roadmap will continue with the launch of the Transiting Exoplanet Surveying Satellite (TESS) in 2017, the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb
Telescope) in 2018, and perhaps the proposed Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope - Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets (WFIRST-AFTA) early in the
next decade. These upcoming telescopes will find and characterize a host of new exoplanets -- those planets that orbit other stars -- expanding our
knowledge of their atmospheres and diversity. The Webb telescope and WFIRST-AFTA will lay the groundwork, and future missions will extend the search
for oceans in the form of atmospheric water vapor and for life as in carbon dioxide and other atmospheric chemicals, on nearby planets that are
similar to Earth in size and mass, a key step in the search for life.

"This technology we are using to explore exoplanets is real," said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission
Directorate in Washington. "The James Webb Space Telescope and the next advances are happening now. These are not dreams -- this is what we do at
NASA."

3 or 4 NASA scientists giving a talk about the new JWST- James Webb Space Telescope, which is much more powerful than The Hubble telescope.
They go into detail about what type of planets they will look at
I dont know much more about it i just clicked on it and then linked it here...

This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides a collaborative venue for free expression.